US Politics on Yik Yak | Christianity is only indigenous to Palestine and and the holy land while Islam is only indigenous to Arabia. Almost all indigenous religions have been wiped out because of Christian and Islamic expansion. Only Shinto, Hindu, Buddhist, and Chinese remain

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Christianity is only indigenous to Palestine and and the holy land while Islam is only indigenous to Arabia. Almost all indigenous religions have been wiped out because of Christian and Islamic expansion. Only Shinto, Hindu, Buddhist, and Chinese remain

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Anonymous 5d

I don’t agree with this sentiment but I have to be the resident theology nerd for a moment and point out that Buddhism is indigenous to India and Hinduism largely sent the center of the Buddhist world far eastwards. I also wonder if you would say Christianity is also indigenous to Greece and Italy given St Paul’s journeys, or that Islam is also native to the Holy Land because most Prophets lived there instead of Arabia…

Anonymous 5d

Islam is indigenous to all mankind from the first man and woman

Anonymous 5d

Bro forgot about the Native Americans 💀💀💀

Anonymous 5d

meanwhile muslims in the “indigenous countries” are being persecuted and genocided…

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Anonymous 5d

yeah colonialism will do that. It would be cool to see people reconnect with old world religions or start new ones, as people have been. I’m agnostic tho so

Anonymous 5d

Christianity and Islam are really not comparable

Anonymous 5d

yeah we are working on it, still a handful we missed at first

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Anonymous

#1 5d

You will be surprised to find yourself in hell

Anonymous

benjamin.rush 5d

Many religions have been around for far longer, the Persians right next door had been Zoroastrians for millennia already

Anonymous

benjamin.rush 5d

What is important is to respect these other religions

Anonymous

OP 5d

inshallah 🤷🏼‍♀️

Anonymous

OP 5d

Ofc you should respect other ppl’s religions, but Islam’s truth claim is that it is the first and only real religion. What you consider Islam historically is not what believers consider Islam historically

Anonymous

#1 5d

Bruh, no not inshallah. Inshallah as many people turn to goodness and God as possible to not end up in hell—yourself included. Inshallah means God willing

Anonymous

benjamin.rush 5d

Only Christianity and Islam claim that they are the real truth. other religions respect each other

Anonymous

#4 5d

Their traditional religions and solar worship has been almost wiped out. Very few practitioners of Native American religions remain.

Anonymous

benjamin.rush 5d

ig he wills me south then i will go. who am i to control his will

Anonymous

#5 5d

they’re both abrahamic religions??

Anonymous

#5 5d

Definitely are, both have exterminated numerous indigenous religions in their expansion and proselytizing and changed the course of history. Persia and ancient Chechnya is a big example.

Anonymous

#1 5d

They both claim that their god is THE god and that there are no other gods

Anonymous

justinian 5d

Buddhism is indigenous to Nepal and the Himalayan peoples and Tibet still had a large following until Tibet was conquered and lost its influence. Yes the Greeks were not Christians. The Phoenicians weren’t. the Assyrians weren’t. All of these peoples became Christian via Roman proselytizing. There was no peaceful coexistence as there was before. Mesopotamia had multiple religions that all coexisted until one came along claiming superiority

Anonymous

justinian 5d

Yes many indigenous religions did take over each other but none has been going around saying they are the absolute truth and that their god is the true god.

Anonymous

#1 5d

sure but that’s where the similarities start and stop, they don’t have the same God

Anonymous

OP 5d

do you have a source bc mine are saying that Christian’s were the ones who faced religious persecution in Persia? And technically in Christianity there’s the trinity, all one essence but 3 different beings

Anonymous

#5 5d

it’s literally the same god. that’s the catch

Anonymous

#1 5d

Nope they’re pretty much completely different, as seen in their respective holy books

Anonymous

OP 5d

…no, most religions are mutually exclusive & not perennialist. I’ve studied Buddhism, Hinduism (rly an exonymic term bc it’s more a collection of varying faiths under what I term a dharmic umbrellla than a single faith) Judaism, & Christianity academically; none of them outside of largely minority modern perennial strains rly advocate what you’re saying at all. You can act respectfully around other ppl’s beliefs without believing them to be true, in fact I am mandated by my religion to do so

Anonymous

OP 5d

Many Hindu groups like the chadravanshi rajputs would literally ransack other groups’ temples (like the surajvanshi) destroying their idols and sometimes even the entire temples while placing their own idols there as an act of domination from their god as the real power to be worshipped. I will say pagan polytheists had more incorporation and less absolutism in their gods, the Romans had a system called interpretatio Romana where they incorporated conquered ppl’s gods into their pantheon, but

Anonymous

OP 5d

That is pretty fundamental to the nature of pagan polytheism—a lack of actual oneness in God. How those groups treated monotheists is where the “respect” ended, see Muslim persecution by the quraish, Christian persecution by the Romans, Jewish persecution by everyone, etc. You are essentially just arguing against a fundamental fact of monotheism and polytheism from entirely faulty premises

Anonymous

#1 5d

Well yeah you’re right, it’s all God’s will, but it’s better to order your intention towards heaven. We are judged by our intentions after all, and keeping them pure is a central aspect to engaging with God’s truth is all